Meet the Members

Bird Watcher, Bird Photographer, Beginner at making recordings (2010)
I live in the Pineywoods of East Texas. I am very interested in making recordings of variations in bird songs. Thanks to Xeno-canto I can publish recordings by location.

I am passionate about mindful listening and recording sound. I love wildlife and nature soundscapes as well as sound tableaus of rural and urban life that feature people of diverse cultures from around the world. Life is rich and immense. The Earth is vast and blazing. Animals and humans are intelligent, complex, beautiful, strange, fragile, creative and communicative. The sounds we emit through vocalization and vibration as well as everyday life move me. Plants, water, air and rocks, all sway, flow, blow and resonate, constantly reacting to natural forces and phenomena. Sound is our natural and cultural environment. Subtle and quiet and thunderous and resilient. Fascinating.

I hope you enjoy listening to my sounds and I look forward to hearing from you.

I am a zoologist by academic training, from the University of Mysore. My interests are animal behaviour and conservation biology. I am currently pursuing PhD studying the behavioural ecology of the Western tragopan.

I used to record with an Olympus Linear PCM Recorder LS-3, Olympus ME31 Shotgun microphones and Sennheisser headphones. I now use Marantz Professional PMD661 MKII, Sennheiser ME66 Shotgun Microphone with a Rycote Pistol Grip and Sennheiser headphones for my recordings. I use Raven Pro for editing my recordings. Please write to me if you need *.wav files of my recordings.

Research Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where I specialize in radar imaging of near-Earth asteroids using the Goldstone Solar System Radar and Arecibo Observatory.

My principal areas of bird expertise are owls, nightjars, red crossbills, montane and chaparral species of southern California, and birds of Puerto Rico.

Frequent contributor to eBird. Surveyor for the USGS Breeding Bird Survey in the San Gabriel Mountains of southern California. Speaker at Audubon Society monthly meetings. Trip leader and board member for the Pasadena Audubon Society.

Recording equipment:
Olympus LS-10, Olympus LS-10S, Sony PCM-M10, and a Marantz PMD670. Occasionally I also use an iPhone 5S, a Canon A720IS point & shoot camera, and a Canon 70D DSLR camera.

I'm a birder and biologist living in western Arizona. While I've been using xeno-canto for years, I've just gotten interested in recording, particularly less commonly heard vocalizations. I archive unedited files of all my recordings, which are available to anyone interested.

An evergreen expanse of forest.
Forested hills and marshes as far as the eye can see, like a sea of trees.
The gentle sighs of the pine trees,
the green hues of the spruces.
This is the home of the Siberian Jay,
this is the conifer-scented hawk forest.
Come hear the song of the Red-flanked Bluetail. :::::: I started to record in 1996. My goal was to make soundscape records. I wanted to record a singing bird in its own habitat. Because of that I didn't started to use parabolic reflector. Nature as it is, is a lifestyle to me. I've making birding-trips mostly in Finland. I've also recorded in Israel, Lithuania, Latvija, Estonia and in Northern-Norway.
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Lauri Hallikainen
Kuopio,Finland

I am interested in animal behaviour, communication, conservation, ecology and evolution. My undergraduate research was conducted with Dr. Scott Forbes at the University of Winnipeg and focused on brood parasitism, brood reduction and predation in Red-winged Blackbirds. My Master's research is focused on alarm signaling, and the evolution and maintenance of a rare cooperative breeding system, joint-nesting, in the Smooth-billed Ani. Currently, she is testing for the use of functionally referential and graded acoustic alarm signalling and exploring more general aspects of acoustic communication in Smooth-billed Anis.

https://sites.google.com/site/mcmasterquinnlab/home

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/leanne-grieves/91/a88/377

I am in the process of completing a full description of the vocal repertoire of the Smooth-billed Ani, studied at the Cabo Rojo & Laguna Cartagena National Wildlife Refuges in southwestern Puerto Rico. I hope that by uploading samples of each call type I have identified for this species, other users can more easily interpret Smooth-billed Ani calls. I also hope that the names I have used for each call type will become standardized within the literature and birding communities in general.

Microbioologist and Master in Science in immunobiology from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon. Bird-watcher since 2012.
Co-leader of the Bird-watching group "Observadores de Aves del Río la Silla" in Nuevo León México.
Interested in the conservation of the rivers in my state and in increasing my knowledge about birds, especially learning more about songs and calls that can help me in some future projects for the group.

I love birds. I work in the Departmento de Ciencias Biologícas of Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) - Ecuador. My main interest is to determine how diversity patterns change with respect to human intervention gradients in local ecosystems and, among other things, use bird songs to better understand this topic. I currently use a Sony PCM-M10 recorder and a Sennheiser K6 / ME64 microphone.

Bióloga de El Salvador y anilladora de aves certificada (nivel de entrenadora) por North American Banding Council (NABC). I am biologist from El Salvador and a bird-bander certified as trainer by the NABC.

I'm biologist and ornithologist, and I've carried out a master degree on Tropical Biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon (Amapa - Brazil), studying the effects of forest heterogeneity on neotropical birds. I have special interest on the study of species distribution and co-evolution processes. I'm also a "junior" violinist. First recordings were made with a Panasonic RR-US511, then I started using a Zoom H5n with its omnidirectional microphone. Now I use the Zoom H5n recorder with Sennheiser ME66 shotgun microphone. More about my research interests: http://liakajiki.webflow.io

I'm a hobby birder from Belgium. I really like birding in tropical rain forests and the mountains of the Himalaya and the Andes. I usually walk around a lot with my binoculars + camera, so I don't have my hands fee to use my recording equipment (which is a simple though excellent Olympus LS-5). I usually record for playback on-site + later determination. I hope to make some more recordings, especially from seldomly recorded birds / unusual sounds.

I'm a professional wildlife biologist and director of an avian natural history museum in California, the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. I conduct bird population estimation projects all over the western U.S., and in Guatemala.

Research:
Altitudinal migration of montane forest birds in eastern Africa. Surveys and population counts of threatened species in the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Distributions of African vertebrates. Has for >15 years been involved in externally funded research projects with mapping and analysis of large-scale biodiversity patterns in Africa (with Prof. Neil Burgess, Jon Fjeldså, Carsten Rahbek and the late Jens B. Rasmussen).
Curation:
Responsible for compilation of large-scale distributional databases for birds (global) and African vertebrates: data entry, documentation and handling of data for analysis. Externally funded.
Teaching:
Has provided technical assistance and advice to numerous MSc and PhD students working with large databases of distributional data.
Other students:
Has served as coordinator of activities in connection with long-term research enhancement programme for training in biodiversity research at University Malaysian Sabah (Kota Kinabalu), Malaysia, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (funding from Danida, The Danish Foreign Ministry). Has provided training courses in database work at these institutions.
Contact details: Louis A. Hansen e-mail; Bioafrica at SNM dot KU dot DK

Retired. I live in a wonderfully beautiful country with over 600 bird species and although I am more photographically orientated, I do record bird calls with very unsophisticated equipment, purely in order to draw shy species out of cover.
I spend as much time as possible out in remote areas looking for species I have not yet captured on camera.

I developed an interest in birds at a fairly young age. Growing up in a rural community, I would often wander the woods looking for birds I heard but could not identify, until I eventually could identify nearly every sound I heard. This paid off. At the age of 14, I was able to redeem my skills at the Atlantic Bird Observatory, a bird banding station on an island off of the southern tip of Nova Scotia. Since then, I have revisited this island six times and am currently using this site for my Master's project. I have also worked for Bird Studies Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada in conducting point counts, territory mapping, and burst sampling.

I currently use a Zoom H2n handheld recorder, though I have used the Zoom H1 in the past. This device is well designed for surround-sound and ambient recordings, and features five microphones which can be focused as needed.

I am a Wildlife Technician and Naturalist, based out of London Ontario Canada. I've been working in the field of Wildlife Conservation since 1996. I have a particular passion for Birds, but I have worked on many projects over the years; Freshwater Turtle conservation (mark recapture, nesting and telemetry work), Invasive Plant control, all types of Habitat Restoration, Bat surveys, Butterfly inventory, Odonate monitoring, Prescribed burns, etc.

Employment in Bird Conservation has taken me to many places, including Jamaica, Mexico (Grasslands of Chihuahua), United States (Wisconsin waterfowl, California passerines, Arizona and New Mexico grasslands), the Provinces of Saskatchewan (waterfowl) and Alberta (Owls) in Canada.

I've also spent time birding in Cuba, much of Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Peru.

I am very interested in audio recording of all manner of vocalizations of bird life, and have been making recordings for 15 years with small handheld voice recorders, point and shoot cameras and smart phones. I hope to acquire more professional gear soon and start contributing to Xeno-Canto.

Biologist from the Tolima Univestity in Colombia and a conservacionist by nature. He started his works in ornithology eight years ago and he has been the director of the Blue-billed Curassow conservation program for the last four years.
He is currently working as a birding nature guide in ECOTURS Colombia S.A. and as the director of the Birds Natural Reserve of Proaves Colombia, which protects the Recurve-billed Bushbird and the Todd´s Parraket in the north of the country

MSc in biologist from University of Costa Rica where I analyzed the relationship between song characteristics and territory establishment and male behavior in Spot-bellied Bobwhite (Colinus leucopogon). Currently I am completing my Ph.D. at the University of Windsor in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Mennill. I am studying the effect of multiple forces (selection and constraints) on the evolution of vocal signals in thicket habitats species, with a focus on Melozone ground-sparrows.

I'm an ornithologist who works with environmental consulting and research in southeastern Brazil. By now I have almost 8 years of experience in many biomes of Brazil, including eastern and western Amazonia (Pará, Maranhão and Rondônia), Goiás, Tocantins and most of the state of Minas Gerais.

Hello,
I am a birder from Kingston, Ontario Canada.
Working as a point-counter has allowed me to spend hundreds of early mornings in the field listening to birds in a variety of places. For this I am very grateful.
I began recording birds early in 2010. I use an Zoom H2 Handy Recorder and a Sennheiser ME66 short shotgun mic with a K6 power module. This is my first recording gear.
I am interested in mimicry, regional dialects, and funny sounds.
Regards, Luke